From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 8 14:51:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05512 for current-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 14:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA05496 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 14:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA07487 for freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:50:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id XAA29612; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:44:01 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:44:01 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order References: <8mzBYNO00YVp0P4FIt@andrew.cmu.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <8mzBYNO00YVp0P4FIt@andrew.cmu.edu>; from Robert N Watson on Feb 8, 1997 14:50:49 -0500 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert N Watson wrote: > 2. The real thing is this. The man page search order finds all of the c > programming calls after the TCL ones, so "man bind" returns TCL's bind, > not the syscall bind. I'm also fairly annoyed by this. I never got it right why Tcl installs its man pages into the inofficial section `n' in the manual at all (is it really something to be considered `new' these days? :), but it's particularly annoying to have this section being searched in front of the standard sections. (I wonder what people would say if we now also came up with another set of man pages for already used names, for everything inside of Perl. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)